I was actually going to say something similar but you beat me to it. All the convincing evidence in the world won't help if someone just covers their ears and sings a stupid tune.
I don't understand what's actually news here. TFA doesn't seem to mention anything about classical communication channels, but if they were used then why is the 60 mile figure significant? Could one not then transport the qubit over an arbitrary distance?
Am I the only one wondering why they're trying to make money off a $420 phone in India of all places? Surely that's a better market for cheaper, sturdier feature phones, like Nokias for example...
I suspect that it was because.tk is free... If they wanted to pay for a domain, then some Anonymous member would likely have to give up some personal details... (Disclaimer, haven't read TFA so what I said could be complete bull.)
With that said, most people have enough self interest and dislike of life ending events that the speed they converge on...is quite reasonable for the road and the conditions. Most people I've seen on the road go pretty fast when it's bone dry and nice and slow down in a hurry when it's raining and shitty.
You don't live in South Africa, do you?:P I can't assess this anywhere in the world, so what you say may be true but where I come from there are an inordinate amount of asshats who seem to think that more is better regardless of what's safe when it comes to speed. The amount of road deaths we have annually testifies to that.
Ultimately there is no other authority on what is the right thing to do while driving other than the individual driver. Assuming that you have been provided with a full understanding of the facts, physics, statistics and knowledge of the best practices for any given situation it is thereafter solely your responsibility to do the right thing. If you decide the right thing involves violating posted speed limits, or any other traffic laws, I encourage you to do so without hesitation. The legal system may retaliate against you in some cases, which is a sad reality you must accept, but I do not recommend any alteration to your behavior. Daddy government doesn't know best, you know best.
I agree with a lot of what you've said, yes, in some cases it is dangerous to stick to the speed limit, in heavy rain and snow you should slow down, and I don't mind too much speeding up to pass a lorry, for instance.
However, the problem is when dumbasses think they know best. I have no idea who you are or how you drive, perhaps you are competent to judge whether it's safe to exceed the speed limit. Do I want to trust my life to your assessment of your own competence though? Hell no. That's why I'm fastidious about sticking to the rules, I don't expect other people to trust me either, no matter how good I think I am. It's not just a CYA thing, I refuse to put myself in a situation where I can be held responsible for other people's lives (or the ending thereof rather). The proverbial old question, what if a child runs into the road? If you're driving too fast are you going to be able to stop in time?
The other thing about rules is that it provides some sort of means whereby people can judge what you're going to do. If someone can expect you not to cross a white line, for example, then they can plan their driving strategy. If you expect someone to be doing 60km/h in a certain zone, then you can judge how big a gap you need to pull out. It's difficult to see that someone coming is actually doing 120km/h (because he's judged himself competent to do so) until they're a lot closer.
Really the posted speed limits are fine. If you think they're too slow, perhaps try riding a bicycle or a donkey or even walking to give yourself a bit of perspective and be grateful that you have mechanised transport.
Well the first step towards recovery is admitting you have a problem...
Do you think you could try not speeding all the time please? I know this is slashdot and everything but there are some of us that wouldn't like to die on the roads because of assholes who think that speed limits aren't important. No offence intended, it's just my life that I'm concerned about.
Well that's the thing, you see. Every place has its pros and cons. That's the thing most South African's don't really think about when they emigrate. Where will you go? There's nowhere on Earth that's a paradise and everything is good.
Granted, there are probably places that are worse than here... Afghanistan for example or Somalia. Those are pretty bad, for one reason or another.
Not necessarily, I like to think it'd be more balanced. Many of the expats that I know were people who had just been particularly badly affected by crime or unemployment, far above the national average.
I know many that want to leave but can't afford to, and similarly many that love it here and want to stay.
From what I've heard, the government people involved on both sides aren't interested in only hosting half a telescope. I'm sorry I can't seem to find the reference at the moment, if I find it I'll come back...
Asking ex residents is likely to get you an overly pessimistic view. I still live here, FWIW it looks as though we go through ups and downs. Sometimes it looks good, sometimes bad.
I may end up living elsewhere but that's for family reasons more than socioeconomical ones.
Problem with that is that the capacitive touchscreens of most tablets don't let you write anywhere near accurately enough. I haven't seen Notability but if it's like the other note-taking apps I've seen it gives you a huge area of screen at the bottom which is greatly magnified so you can write big, then it just shrinks the stuff and puts it in its appropriate place. Then you need to move around the little box to specify which area on the page you're writing to.
I personally agree with the old-school pen and paper approach. If I seriously want to digitise the notes afterwards I scan them into Evernote, which is on my PC and my tablet, so I can get access to them easily, and Evernote indexes them, which is quite cool.
There may be some truth to that actually, low-tech may well be best in this case. If you have an old "dumb" phone, or even a feature phone, then there aren't likely to be any exploits. Granted you are sacrificing a lot of functionality, but do you really need a smartphone? Sometimes I almost wish I could give mine up just for a bit of peace and quiet. (Yes I know, turning it off would work, but then it ceases to be a functional phone and thus defeats the point of having it.)
The T-shirts, can be washed and ironed without damaging the chips, Moraes said adding that the chips have a "security system that makes tampering virtually impossible."
A microwave probably would destroy the chips, as would any strong enough EM source, but they're used to monitor whether a child is entering or leaving the school. So in other words, if the chip is dead, even if the child is in class, the system wouldn't have registered him because of lack of chip and the parents would get a snotty text message.
FWIW, I'd probably try and destroy it as well though. Just to show how much I loved it.
Agreed. That's what my school did, if a child was not in class when the teacher took roll call, then the parents were telephoned. No need for microchips, really.
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If I had mod points you would have been awarded one :-) you make a very good point.
I was actually going to say something similar but you beat me to it. All the convincing evidence in the world won't help if someone just covers their ears and sings a stupid tune.
I don't understand what's actually news here. TFA doesn't seem to mention anything about classical communication channels, but if they were used then why is the 60 mile figure significant? Could one not then transport the qubit over an arbitrary distance?
Fair point :P
Most Mac users I know didn't even realise there Macs have a command line, over here it's more of a fashion accessory though.
Am I the only one wondering why they're trying to make money off a $420 phone in India of all places? Surely that's a better market for cheaper, sturdier feature phones, like Nokias for example...
I suspect that it was because .tk is free... If they wanted to pay for a domain, then some Anonymous member would likely have to give up some personal details... (Disclaimer, haven't read TFA so what I said could be complete bull.)
With that said, most people have enough self interest and dislike of life ending events that the speed they converge on...is quite reasonable for the road and the conditions. Most people I've seen on the road go pretty fast when it's bone dry and nice and slow down in a hurry when it's raining and shitty.
You don't live in South Africa, do you? :P I can't assess this anywhere in the world, so what you say may be true but where I come from there are an inordinate amount of asshats who seem to think that more is better regardless of what's safe when it comes to speed. The amount of road deaths we have annually testifies to that.
Ultimately there is no other authority on what is the right thing to do while driving other than the individual driver. Assuming that you have been provided with a full understanding of the facts, physics, statistics and knowledge of the best practices for any given situation it is thereafter solely your responsibility to do the right thing. If you decide the right thing involves violating posted speed limits, or any other traffic laws, I encourage you to do so without hesitation. The legal system may retaliate against you in some cases, which is a sad reality you must accept, but I do not recommend any alteration to your behavior. Daddy government doesn't know best, you know best.
I agree with a lot of what you've said, yes, in some cases it is dangerous to stick to the speed limit, in heavy rain and snow you should slow down, and I don't mind too much speeding up to pass a lorry, for instance.
However, the problem is when dumbasses think they know best. I have no idea who you are or how you drive, perhaps you are competent to judge whether it's safe to exceed the speed limit. Do I want to trust my life to your assessment of your own competence though? Hell no. That's why I'm fastidious about sticking to the rules, I don't expect other people to trust me either, no matter how good I think I am. It's not just a CYA thing, I refuse to put myself in a situation where I can be held responsible for other people's lives (or the ending thereof rather). The proverbial old question, what if a child runs into the road? If you're driving too fast are you going to be able to stop in time?
The other thing about rules is that it provides some sort of means whereby people can judge what you're going to do. If someone can expect you not to cross a white line, for example, then they can plan their driving strategy. If you expect someone to be doing 60km/h in a certain zone, then you can judge how big a gap you need to pull out. It's difficult to see that someone coming is actually doing 120km/h (because he's judged himself competent to do so) until they're a lot closer.
Really the posted speed limits are fine. If you think they're too slow, perhaps try riding a bicycle or a donkey or even walking to give yourself a bit of perspective and be grateful that you have mechanised transport.
Well the first step towards recovery is admitting you have a problem...
Do you think you could try not speeding all the time please? I know this is slashdot and everything but there are some of us that wouldn't like to die on the roads because of assholes who think that speed limits aren't important. No offence intended, it's just my life that I'm concerned about.
It could also help you to prove that you weren't speeding, of course...
Well that's the thing, you see. Every place has its pros and cons. That's the thing most South African's don't really think about when they emigrate. Where will you go? There's nowhere on Earth that's a paradise and everything is good.
Granted, there are probably places that are worse than here... Afghanistan for example or Somalia. Those are pretty bad, for one reason or another.
Not necessarily, I like to think it'd be more balanced. Many of the expats that I know were people who had just been particularly badly affected by crime or unemployment, far above the national average.
I know many that want to leave but can't afford to, and similarly many that love it here and want to stay.
From what I've heard, the government people involved on both sides aren't interested in only hosting half a telescope. I'm sorry I can't seem to find the reference at the moment, if I find it I'll come back...
Asking ex residents is likely to get you an overly pessimistic view. I still live here, FWIW it looks as though we go through ups and downs. Sometimes it looks good, sometimes bad.
I may end up living elsewhere but that's for family reasons more than socioeconomical ones.
The question is though, who owns those facts?
I'm pretty sure that the Pi handled 1080p video just fine. I'm not sure about the h.264 though.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/571
Problem with that is that the capacitive touchscreens of most tablets don't let you write anywhere near accurately enough. I haven't seen Notability but if it's like the other note-taking apps I've seen it gives you a huge area of screen at the bottom which is greatly magnified so you can write big, then it just shrinks the stuff and puts it in its appropriate place. Then you need to move around the little box to specify which area on the page you're writing to.
I personally agree with the old-school pen and paper approach. If I seriously want to digitise the notes afterwards I scan them into Evernote, which is on my PC and my tablet, so I can get access to them easily, and Evernote indexes them, which is quite cool.
There may be some truth to that actually, low-tech may well be best in this case. If you have an old "dumb" phone, or even a feature phone, then there aren't likely to be any exploits. Granted you are sacrificing a lot of functionality, but do you really need a smartphone? Sometimes I almost wish I could give mine up just for a bit of peace and quiet. (Yes I know, turning it off would work, but then it ceases to be a functional phone and thus defeats the point of having it.)
You're on Slashdot though... Wait, that's not legitimate, sorry.
I must admit, I've never tried, but based on everything I know about electromagnetism, it probably will...
To be fair, it's not all of Brazil, it's just the schools in one city.
TFA says the following:
The T-shirts, can be washed and ironed without damaging the chips, Moraes said adding that the chips have a "security system that makes tampering virtually impossible."
A microwave probably would destroy the chips, as would any strong enough EM source, but they're used to monitor whether a child is entering or leaving the school. So in other words, if the chip is dead, even if the child is in class, the system wouldn't have registered him because of lack of chip and the parents would get a snotty text message.
FWIW, I'd probably try and destroy it as well though. Just to show how much I loved it.
Agreed. That's what my school did, if a child was not in class when the teacher took roll call, then the parents were telephoned. No need for microchips, really.
You'd need to leave your clothes in class though.